Portland State: A History in Pictures
Book Launch Celebration
Friday, April 24, 2009
Branford P. Millar Library, 2nd floor
1875 SW Park Avenue
Portland, OR 97201
5 pm - 7 pm
Join us in celebrating the launch of the new history book, Portland State: A History in Pictures, on Friday, April 24, 2009!
Three years in the making, Portland State: A History in Pictures, features more than 300 color and black-and-white photographs that document Portland State's history, events, and people from its early days as a temporary extension center
to the nationally recognized urban research university that it is today.
A project of the Retired Association of Portland State (RAPS), Portland State: A History in Pictures, written by Richard Sanders '57 with photo editing by Brent Schauer, will be available for purchase at the Book Launch Celebration.
The Portland State Library in collaboration with Retirement Association of Portland State and the PSU Alumni Association invite you to attend this Inauguration event for President Wim Wiewel.
Everybody Reads /Oregon Reads 2009
Kick-Off at
Portland State University
Lauren Kessler at 11am & 7 pm
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Smith Memorial Student Union Ballroom, 3rd floor
1825 SW Broadway
Portland, OR 97201
What if everyone in Oregon read the same book? In celebration of Oregon's sesquicentennial birthday, the selection for Everybody Reads 2009 is Lauren Kessler's Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese-American Family. Hear Lauren Kessler talk about her book on January 15 at Portland State University! This is the main event for Multnomah County Libraries Everybody Reads 2009 in partnership with the Portland State University Library and the PSU Department of English.
For more information, write to events@lists.pdx.edu or call 503.725.4552.
Reading Out Loud: A Public Readathon
Tuesday, January 13, 10 am to 8 pm &
Wednesday, January 14, 10 am to 8 pm
Multnomah County Central Library, Collins Gallery
801 S.W. 10th Avenue Portland, OR 97205
Sandy Sampson, MFA candidate in Art and Social Pracitice will lead a public reading of Stubborn Twig.
Take a turn reading out loud or just come and listen! Open to the community. Sponsored by the Portland State
Library and the PSU Department of Art.
To Cry Down Injustice?
Oregonians and Japanese American Removal During WWII
Thursday, January 29, 7 pm
Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 238/Browsing Lounge
1825 SW Broadway
Portland, OR 97201
Ellen Eisenberg, professor of history at Willamette University and author
of The First to Cry Down Justice: Western Jews and Japanese Removal during
WWII, will speak about the Jewish response to Japanese internment in three
West Coast cities. Sponsored by the PSU Department of English.
Filmmaker Alton Takiyama-Chung Presents
his new documentary, Okage Sama De
Friday, February 6, 7 pm
Saturday, February 7, 7 pm
5th Avenue Cinema
510 SW Hall St.
Portland, OR 97201
Through the history-based stories of five Japanese American men, filmmaker Alton Takiyama-Chung
explores the complexity of the Japanese American experience during World War II from the U.S. internment
camps to the front lines in Europe and the Pacific. Takiyama-Chung introduces the film and will
answer questions after the screenings. Sponsored by the PSU Film Committee and the Portland State Library.
The Thirteen Club: How Narrative Nonfiction Brings the Past Alive
Friday, February 13, 11 am
Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 333
1825 SW Broadway
Portland, OR 97201
Award-winning author Paul Collins discusses how variour authors use narrative nonfiction to animate works
like Stubborn Twig. Collins, a professor at Portland State University, is the author of five books and regularly
appears on NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday as the program's "literary detective." Sponsored by the PSU Department
of English.
The History of Racism in Oregon
Thursday, February 19, 11 am & 7 pm
Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 294
1825 SW Broadway
Portland, OR 97201
Join us on the National Day of Remembrance of Executive Order 9066, which authorized the internment of Japanese
American citizens during World War II. Explore Oregon's complicated historical relationship to racial and cultural differences
Patti Sakurai, professor of ethnic studies at Oregon State University; Darrell Millner, professor of black studies at Portland
State University; and Randy Blazak, professor of sociology at Portland State University. The Oregon historical artifacts
are provided by local collector Kevin Thomas.
